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No. 437,909. Patented Oct. 7, 1890.

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JOHN S. SEYMOUR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,909, dated October'7, 1890.

Application filed June 14, 1890. Serial No. 355,402. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. SEYMOUR, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Circuitous PleasureRiding, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in pleasure apparatus in which oneor more cars or floats are suspended from or supported by a frame-workwhich is pivoted on a central point and capable of being revolved, andto which a motion of rotation is given by applying some motive power,and has for its obj ect to make the cars or floats self-supporting, asfar as the central pivot-point about which they revolve is concerned,and self-operative, as far as the motive power required to revolve themis concerned.

It consists in the novel features of using boats for the cars or ioatsand running them in a circular waterway and in using the wind as asource of power.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference denotelike parts in the several iigures, Figure l is a plan view of a circularwater-way on which are oated my sail-boats. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectiontaken on the line 2 2 in Fig. l; and Figs. 3 and 4 are elevations ofsail-boats, showing inoditications in the ways of supporting the samewhen used in my pleasure apparatus, as hereinafter described.

In the center of a circular water-way A, I place a post B, into the topof which is driven the pivot-bolt b. This acts as a support for theinner ends of the radial arms C, which are placed and secured so as tobe at right angles to each other and as a pivot about which they canrevolve. The outer ends of the arms O are supported on the boats D,which are secured thereto, so that the boats occupy and maintainpositions in the waterway a quadrant apart. The boats D, being securedto the ends of the arms C, are forced to travel in a circle, asindicated by the arrows c, the wind acting on the sails Z, when properlyplaced, for over three-fourths of the Way round. As shown in thedrawings, Fig. l, the wind blowing in the direction of the arrows a,more or less force will be exerted on the sails of any one boat by thewind,depend ent on the position of the boat in the circle of revolution,except when between the points d, where the wind is directly in the bow.Over this dead part of the circuit the boat is carried by beingconnected with the other boats which are being acted on by the wind.

The arms C are braced together by acrcular piece E, which may be formedwith a bevel-gear on its under side, which engages with the pinion e,which in turn maybe used to operate other mechanism, such as anadvertising-display or a pump for replenishing the water in thewater-way.

Around the water-way, at points corresponding with the position of theboats when standing still, there are placed four platforms 7c,convenient for gettin gin and out of the boats.

YVhen the water-way is frozen over, skids or runners m can be placedunder the boats, as shown in Fig. 3; or when it is not convenient tohave a water-way they may be run on a circular track and mounted onwheels n, as shown in Fig. 4, in each instance, however, making use ofthe wind as a source of power to propel the boats or revolve theapparatus as a whole.

It will be obvious that I am only limited in the number of boats used bythe diametrical size of my water-way or the conditions where the sailsof one boat will take the wind out of the sails of another boat.

l. In an apparatus for circuitous pleasure riding, the combination ot'one or more boats provided with sails properly mounted on the same, soas to be capable of an adjustment to take the greatest advantage of' thewind, the said boats being rigidly secured to the ends of radial arms,whereby the force of the wind acting on the sails of the boats can beused to the best advantage, the said radial arms being secured togetherand pivoted on a central pivot-point with a circular water-way,substantially as described.

2. In an apparatus for circuitous pleasure riding, the combination ofone or more cars or floats properly supported, provided with sailsproperly mounted on the same, so as to be capable of an adjustment totake the greatest IOC advantage of the Wind, the said cars or Boats Intestimony whereof I have affixed my sigbei'ng rigidly secured to theends of radial nature, in presenceof two Witnesses, this 5th x arms,whereby the force of the Wind acting on vday of June, 1890.

the sails can be used to the best advantage, JOHN S. SEYMOUR. 5 the saidradial arms being secured together Vitnesses:

and pivoted on a central pivot-point, with a J. W. CROOKES,

circular track, substantially as described. A A. RAMES.

